Los Angeles’s own Mohawk Bend has set up a restaurant pop-up at the Beer Barn in the Terrace at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, upping the ante on this year’s festival food fare offerings..

I chose the Street Meat hot dog off the Mohawk Bend menu and service was quick, handing me a hot dog on a perfectly toasted bun, which was more of a bread roll sliced in half. The hot dog was wrapped in bacon and topped with a tangy mayonnaise, red and green peppers and onion. A side of chips accompanied the Street Meat and it was presented on a biodegradable plate.

All the tables were taken so my friends and I sat on the floor in the stamped down grass in between tables, like many others were doing. Around us, people chatted, ate bar food, and drank one or more of the many beers on tap at the beer barn.

While the bread was fantastic, the hot dog itself was extremely salty, the bacon adding to its saltiness. The mild peppers and onion helped alleviate some of the saltiness of each bite, but their mild sweetness was drowned out by the salty chips that accompanied the meal — then again, the meal was meant to be washed down with an ice cold beer, so it’s understandable that the flavors had to be more pronounced.

The hot dog was filling and the chips the right crispiness, but if I’m to return to the Beer Barn for food again, remind me to grab a beer while I’m at it.